Save the Bilby

With the incredible assistance of many volunteers and funded by generous
donations from people across Australia, a 25 square kilometre predator and
feral animal proof enclosure was offically opened at Currawinya National
Park, Easter 2001.

Captive-bred bilbies are to be released into the enclosure late 2001.

This ambitious program to re-establish breeding population of bilbies at
Currawinya National Park is part of the national strategy to recover this
endangered species.

Currawinya was selected as the reintroduction site because bilbies once
lived there and it is roughly the centre of the bilbies former geographical
range in eastern Australia.

It is also a large park with permanent staff and the weather conditions at
Currawinya are expected to provide bilbies with more reliable and diverse
food supply than other areas in the arid zone.